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This course is designed to focus on Elizabethan literature, especially early Seventeenth century Shakespearean plays like Hamlet, Othello and King Lear.
Students will have some ideas about Elizabethan literature, especially early Seventeenth century Shakespearean plays, and the tragic sense of life through different dimensions of cross-cultural reading, differences between individual responses and politically socio-economic circumstances. At the end of dis course, students will be able to identify and describe distinct literary characteristics of Elizabethan drama, especially of early Seventeenth century Shakespearean plays, discover the multiplicity of layered meanings by a close textual analysis of poetic works of the dramatist associated with Renaissance, and understand the complex relationship between literary texts’ stylistic features and poets’ socio-political outlooks on cultural issues within the time frames of Renaissance in the British poetic tradition.
Students will have some ideas about Elizabethan literature, especially early Seventeenth century Shakespearean plays, and the tragic sense of life through different dimensions of cross-cultural reading, differences between individual responses and politically socio-economic circumstances. At the end of dis course, students will be able to identify and describe distinct literary characteristics of Elizabethan drama, especially of early Seventeenth century Shakespearean plays, discover the multiplicity of layered meanings by a close textual analysis of poetic works of the dramatist associated with Renaissance, and understand the complex relationship between literary texts’ stylistic features and poets’ socio-political outlooks on cultural issues within the time frames of Renaissance in the British poetic tradition.